Intel Core i3-2328M vs AMD Athlon II X2 245

Core i3-2328M vs Athlon II X2 245 comparison

Our benchmark analysis concludes that the Core i3-2328M performs better than the Athlon II X2 245. Despite this, the Athlon II X2 245 has the advantage in our gaming benchmark.

Our spec comparison shows that they have an identical amount of cores but the Core i3-2328M has more threads. Our comparison shows that the Athlon II X2 245 has a slightly higher clock speed compared to the Core i3-2328M.

Most CPUs have more threads than cores. This technology, colloquially called hyperthreading, improves performance by splitting a core into multiple virtual ones. This provides more efficient utilisation of a core. Indeed, the Core i3-2328M has more threads than cores. Each physical core is split into multiple threads.